Delivering for People and Nature. The One Planet Network is Changing How We Think, Act and Share about SCP
This high-level side event at UNEA 5.2, organized by the One Planet Network, brought together a diverse group of stakeholders to look at how to approach our consumption and production patterns differently. Panelists’ interventions centered around a few central questions: What kinds of changes can have the largest global impact while leaving no one behind? And what are the game-changing solutions that get us there?
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“If we live in a time of unprecedented challenges, we also live in a time where there is great understanding of just how interconnected people and the planet truly are….The choices we make resonate far beyond the little sphere of our own influence. So, this is the role of the One Planet Network, to help us make these sustainable choices”, UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen emphasized, to open the interventions.
From the State Secretary for the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, Katrin Schneeberger, we heard that “There is no time to waste. With less time than a decade to meet the 2030 sustainability goals, we must increase our impact”. The“10YFP programs give us the tools to make it possible”, she noted.
The following discussions took a deeper dive into just what solutions are out there, and how can they be brought to scale. Numerous global thought leaders took part in two panel discussions, first on changing behaviors in high impact sectors, showcasing the built environment and food sectors, followed by a discussion of solutions for implementation which leave no one behind. The panelists represented a diversity of viewpoints, from government officials to private sector representatives, to NGOs.
The event closed with remarks from the Hon. Kavydass Ramano, Minister of Environment, Solid Waste Management and Climate Change of the Republic of Mauritius. He contextualized the discussion through the lens of the triple planetary crisis and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, noting that “Never before has it been so clear that globally we need a long term, inclusive and collective paradigm shift…”. He furthermore brought home the centrality of sustainable consumption and production to all these agendas, remarking that it “…represents the ultimate tool which can help us reshape our economies on both the supply and demand sides”. He concluded his remarks by announcing that the 10YFP team is coordinating the development of a post-2022 global strategy on Sustainable Consumption and Production, which will provide a roadmap and set of common objectives with which countries and others can engage on the road to 2030.
